Mat's Ashandari (potentially stupid question)

[Doselan]

Can't peel folks if they're getting fired and ironed!  lol

 

Yeah, you're probably right though.  I'm sooooo stoked about this next book.

[aunt_pol]

Yeah, it's gonna be deadly...

[Aegnor]

In Randland they probably know about iron in blood.  Or at least they could.  They know some things that a society at their stage of development might not know, simply because they are coming at it from the other end.  An advanced society reverting to a more primitive one.  Some knowledge is lost, some is preserved.

 

Also, they also have the custom of cutting your hand and shaking as a ceremony indicating a strong binding agreement.  The Borderland leaders do this in the prologue for Path of Daggers.

 

Ethenielle hissed as her belt knife slashed across her left palm. Tenobia laughed at cutting hers. Paitar and Easar might as well have been plucking splinters. Four hands reached out and met, gripped, heart’s blood mingling, dripping to the ground, soaking into the stony dirt. “We are one, to the death,” Easar said, and they all spoke with him. “We are one, to the death.” By blood and soil, they were committed. Now they had to find Rand al’Thor. And do what needed to be done. Whatever the price.

[aunt_pol]

Can someone remind me which set of Finns Moiraine is with? If

it's the ones that were wearing stuff made of skin, I'd imagine

there's no useful means to harm them with blood.

 

Dammit people I already solved this one, it's cuendillar! ;)

[FarShainMael]

 

@farthammer: blood doesn't bind iron, it is made with it, iron turns up in the haemoglobin in the red cells. Blood binds to oxygen and carbon dioxide (according to their relative concentrations) and - if you're very unlucky - to carbon monoxide, usually fatally.

 

 

I'm not a biologist and saw no need to introduce a bunch of jargon for no reason if the general idea could be conveyed but here you go.  And here.

 

Thanks, I'll consider myself educated! ;)

 

@aunt_pol: Moiraine fell through the Eelfinn (skinning) doorway, but there are indications she encountered both sets.

 

[aunt_pol]

Cool. So Mat should be able to inflict insult and injury on both foxy and snakey nasties!

[FarShainMael]

Perrin's WolfDream of him trussed up like an oven-ready chicken doesn't bode good, though..

 

[DemandredFO]

Wasn't that him being hung or is their another one I'm forgetting

[FarShainMael]

Mat stood naked and bound, snarling; an odd  spear with a black shaft had been thrust across his back behind his elbows, and a silver medallion, a foxhead, hung on his chest.

 

 

[Owayn The Traveller]

Thom is going bring spoons for music, Mat will lose he eye and get an iron one made and bring that and Noal will create fire by rubbing his elbow and knee together really fast.

[Random Man]

Thom is going bring spoons for music, Mat will lose he eye and get an iron one made and bring that and Noal will create fire by rubbing his elbow and knee together really fast.

 

Like the spoons bit, but the iron is obviously going to come from their blood. They just have to eat a bunch of liver before entering the Tower, grab Moiraine, and if she isn't burned out they just cut themselves and she draws the iron out and makes a boomerang with it (while Thom is hypnotizing the Finns with spoons). The Finns don't like iron because they have a magnetic attraction to it in large concentrations, so when Mat throws the boomerang it drags them all over the place. Unfortunately Mat also gets distracted by Thom's music, and when the boomerang whips back it hits him in the eye. It's intuitively obvious  ;)

[Owayn The Traveller]

Thom is going bring spoons for music, Mat will lose he eye and get an iron one made and bring that and Noal will create fire by rubbing his elbow and knee together really fast.

 

Like the spoons bit, but the iron is obviously going to come from their blood. They just have to eat a bunch of liver before entering the Tower, grab Moiraine, and if she isn't burned out they just cut themselves and she draws the iron out and makes a boomerang with it (while Thom is hypnotizing the Finns with spoons). The Finns don't like iron because they have a magnetic attraction to it in large concentrations, so when Mat throws the boomerang it drags them all over the place. Unfortunately Mat also gets distracted by Thom's music, and when the boomerang whips back it hits him in the eye. It's intuitively obvious  ;)

 

Oh, ya it's all so obvious now. Guess can just skip that section now that we worked it out.

[Guest minixjs]

I was surprised by how well Sanderson did in writing for RJ

[Sid]

I like how this 'potentially stupid question' turned out to be the Big Unnoticed Thing we searched for for months.